Monica Garcia-Albea

Monica Garcia-Albea started out as a flute player, but received her Master’s Degree in Vocal Performance/Opera at Boston’s New England Conservatory. She then moved to Berlin, Germany, where she sang in established opera houses, most notably with the two-time “Best Choir of the Year” in the Deutscher Oper Berlin. However, she was from the beginning, always drawn to jazz, improvisation, and movement courses, and as a free-lance artist in Berlin, Monica left her mark in the cross-over “off-opera” scene. Her career break came with the leading role of “The Magic Flute in the Subway”, an internationally acclaimed production that integrated a rock singer, contemporary dance, and video projections. As a voice teacher in Berlin, Ms. Garcia-Albea built a reputation for implementing pop music, Alexander Technique, yoga, ball-games, and dancing in her lesson plans, and for switching musical eras at the drop of a hat. In 2013, when she began her own music theory/ piano/flute teaching business in New Jersey, Monica tried to import this out-of-the-box thinking, and had a great following of students, parents, and friends. Popsical School of Performance and its holistic view of music education is for her a natural extension of all her years of training and experience. Monica Garcia-Albea is now exploring songwriting and plays/sings/records with local bands and musical theater troupes.